You don’t have to worry about anything in Kensington, Md. You are inland so the only threat you would have from hurricanes are flooding and tornadoes, but the forecast track of Earl does not bring it anywhere near the coast of Maryland. You aren’t even in the margin of error for the forecast track and unless something drastic changes you won’t have any worries.

Tony R
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Sam is right, I doubt you have anything to worry about. Even though hurricanes can be bad around the eye, the further out you go away from the eye the lower the wind speed. So the really bad winds would be say 20 or 30 miles from the eye. You also have to realize the the weather channel must hype up weather reports for a number of reasons. Mostly to save face making it seem not that bad and then we end up the many people dying. They don’t want that so the hype factor is turned up. Plus those weather people get just a little to excited when some good juicy sever weather pops up. Just take precautions but also take the weather reports with a grain of salt.

Justin
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September 7, 2010
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Dont believe the hyperbole. The more you know the better you are. It will go east of you. The most you can expect is a shower.
Nothing like Isadore in 2002.

Jo
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September 7, 2010
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I doubt you’ll get more than a few showers and a some small gusts of wind. Earl is a very compact system (only about 200 miles wide) so it’s mainly the coastal areas that need to be alert. But even then, it’s going to depend on when the low pressure system arrives from the northwest to turn Earl away from the coast. If it arrives too late, Earl will come close enough to make quite an impact.

Unlike you, I live 10 miles from the coast in southeast VA and we only have about a 10% chance of getting hit along with North Carolina. But the front will definately be here in time to push it back out to sea before it gets to Maryland. Fortunately, we’re used to this and know how to get ready…just in case. The one thing that sucks tho is that it’ll be thursday morning before we know and that’s too late to evacuate everyone if we are gonna get hit. Oh well. We’ll ride it out…we always do…

Now, the New England states? They should be concerned. Saw a woman on FB today who thought she’d be leaving on her cruise from Boston on friday evening…uh…NOOOOO…

So don’t worry…but keep your fingers crossed for those of us down here, ok?